New PhpGedView Site Registry
There’s a lot to say about yesterday’s workshop, and I haven’t had time to write about it yet, so check back for my Post FHTW Report on Monday. I did want to quickly mention the new site registry I put online today though. The next version of PGVAgent will gather it’s list of sites from this new registry, in addition to the official PhpGedView registry it already accesses.
Why a second registry? Not too long ago Bob Coret of Genealogy Online (Dutch only) contacted me about how his site could be accessed by Genesis. The site, which makes available approximately 2.2 million people in over 700 family trees, isn’t running PGV software. We discussed several possibilities, but finally settled on him emulating the relevant parts of the PGV web service so that PGVAgent can talk to it. In order for PGVAgent to know about his website, however, the site needs to be on a registry, and the official PGV registry is for PGV websites only. Hence the need for this second registry. Also, this registry will probably be extended in the future to list sites that even the PGVAgent can’t talk to, but other yet-to-be-written agents can.
If you run your own PGV site, I’d encourage you to add it to the DFT registry. In the future it will be extended with addtional functionality that will help make PGVAgent searches much more efficient and useful, of which you can then take advantage. Nevertheless, if your site is already listed on the official PGV registry it isn’t neccessary to add it to the DFT registry.
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The edit link shows the registering users email address. Can you smell a SPAM magnet? To edit, nothing should be shown until the user logs in. Also keep in mind that 95% of the sites registered at the PhpGedView registry are spam, and every entry is validated by an admin before it shows up live on the site. You should put the same safeguards in place.
Point taken :). I changed the registry to not show the e-mail for now and I’ll enhance it later to allow me to validate sites. I wish there were a way to automate the process though. Perhaps a registration filter and a “Mark as SPAM”-type button in Genesis.